The Empire of Vest Are is a huge, safe nation, renowned for its frequent executions, absence of drug laws, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, devout population of 210 million Vest Areans have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Spirituality. The average income tax rate is 14.7%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Vest Arean economy, worth 10.3 trillion vapis a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Retail, Automobile Manufacturing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 48,935 vapis, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.9 times as much as the poorest.

Citizens are tied down and forced to watch educational videos on empathy, people invite random old men into their homes to play with their kids, student athletes gaze forlornly at abandoned leopardball fields, and lavish state dinners in Vest Are City are the state's leading budgetary expenditure. Crime is almost non-existent. Vest Are's national animal is the leopard, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Vest Are is ranked 73,419^th in the world and 1^st in Union of Communist Socialists for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 105.15 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.